Parisians applaud healthcare employees from their balcony at 8 p. The strict lockdown, requiring most people in France to remain at home, came into effect at midday on March 17, , prohibiting all but essential outings in a bid to curb the coronavirus spread. Iranian workers set up a makeshift hospital inside the Iran Mall, northwest of Tehran on March 21, , amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Iran said that more people had died from coronavirus, raising the official death toll to 1, in the Islamic republic, one of the world's worst affected countries. A Chinese worker wears a protective suit and mask as he checks the temperature of a man entering a grocery story on Feb. Q train station on March 4, in New York. The number of cases in New York rose to 23 on the morning of Friday, March 6. Commuters wearing face masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus take hand sanitizer during a campaign for washing hands at the skytrain station in Bangkok, Thailand on Feb.
Residents wait to enter a checkpoint with a sign that reads "Returnees to Beijing registration point" in Beijing, China on Thursday, Feb. China is struggling to restart its economy after the annual Lunar New Year holiday was extended to try to keep people home and contain novel coronavirus.
Traffic remained light in Beijing, and many people were still working at home. Thailand's Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul L distributes masks to commuters during a campaign for wearing masks and washing hands at the skytrain station in Bangkok, Thailand on Feb. The coronavirus outbreak in China has thrown Thailand's and other Asian countries' travel industry into chaos, threatening billions in losses as millions of would-be travelers are staying home.
A cashier wearing a protective face mask works behind a plastic tarp in a supermarket on March 19, in Strasbourg, France, on the third day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID, caused by the coronavirus. Medical staff members wearing protective suits take samples from a young boy to test for the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID, at the Bulovka hospital in Prague, Czech Republic on March 14, The Czech Republic's government has approved further measures early Saturday to try and stem the spread of the coronavirus.
